skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In point of fact, computer science did at one point have an official equivalent PE exam, but it was bafflingly removed a few years ago though I'm not entirely clear on the reason.

It was removed because 100 people registered in 6 years.
Would be interesting to know also the current status of Wayland development in NetBSD, since the last blog post about it was quite a while ago.
Agreed. I think that it's in fact quite immature to act like we must always optimize for lives saved, no matter the cost and no matter how small the gain.
It would be interesting to end up with a ranked list instead of just the top spot.
That's who sponsors safe programming systems. It's why we have Ada.

America is very naturally safe because we're on another continent than everyone else, but eventually if you don't build weapons someone else will and fire them at you.
Anyone who does serious work with ancient technologies knows both that the older stuff was much more repairable but also needed to be repaired much more often.

Material and building science has advanced a mind boggling tremendous amount - even modern toilets are significantly better than an actual un-upgraded 40’s - if you can find it.

At the same time we can mass manufacture endless cheap plastic shit.
This is NOT a valid 63 Amps rated breaker, or 63 Amp anything for that matter. The screw terminal will melt.

Based on the screw terminal, without looking inside, I would rate it not higher than 10 Amps. Don't pass your whole apartment through it.
I mean, that’s what the KKK does.
A Python Interface for the Generic Mapping Tools
What is "Zaka" and what has BBC been saying? Have a link to what you mean?
That is utterly false.
The share of dual income households has more than doubled. Your statistic seems likely to be biased by people retiring.

https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2019/CES-WP-19-19.pdf

I'm guessing the rise of dual income houses is much more visible in the median than are retirees dropping down the labor force participation rate.
I'm pretty sure it's not what it says.

it does say that the needs of the tenants almost always outweigh the needs of the owner.

you always rent with the expectation to stay in that place forever, until you die, and never move?

why does undetermined time to stay always have to imply that i'll stay there until i die?

i rent with the expectation that i can stay there as long as i want, and renew as many times as i want, until my life circumstances change. i never have a moving out date in mind. where i am now i might stay 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. i have no idea. the expectation is that i am the one to choose when i move out and noone else.

Why do you think you can determine the purpose of the property that does not belong to you, once and forever?

i don't. the german law does however. the majority of people in germany live in rental properties. so if you build a rental property, it better remain a rental property and nothing else. that's what you got permission and maybe even subsidies for. because the country needs more rental properties. and this is one way to achieve that. by giving tenants the right to rent the same place as long as they need. the exceptions for the owner to change that are very limited and need to be in the interest of the community. you can terminate a lease in order to use the property for your family. but that is pretty much the only exception. and even that can be limited if the tenant would loose their job if they had to move or would be forced to send the kids to another school. both are considered highly disruptive and against the interest of society, so tenants are protected from that. as long as the tenant is in such a situation you have no chance of getting them out. germany does this in order to provide stability for families and the community.

Why it's any of your business?

again, not mine, but the governments. by forcing a tenant to move you are acting against the interests of the community.

Thanks, I'll pass

there are many reasons not to want to live in germany. i don't live there either for reasons, but tenant protection is not one of them
> Companies that manufacture things people don't want go out of business.

Do they, though? When was the last a time a really big company went bankrupt?
I think there would be constitutional challenges in the US, but in Canada, the police are allowed/required to seize your vehicle roadside for certain offenses (unfair if you are found not to have committed and offense, but I've never heard of that happening).
Why not? Nowadays Tik Tok, Instagram, and X/Twitter have more influence than New York Times, at least for the younger generations.

The medium is the message...
"Rubber Hose Cryptography" comes in the form of a PR.

"Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis" comes in the back door and waits for you in the dark.
What does that have to do with my comment?

BTW October 7th is decidedly not the root of this war, just a dark event in a series of atrocities that have occurred during the last 70+ years.
We use a Snowflake ID (the ID scheme not the company) variant that is both meaningful and gets us IDs for the next 200 or so years before having to do anything and I don't expect that will ever be an issue.
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

Simplicity Is an Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491079 - Aug 2022 (6 comments)
Thanks for the feedback/tips, I'll give it a shot.
the reason the article is difficult to read is because it is written by an insufferable elitist hipster who evades every opportunity to share his learning experience with the audience and instead treats them like drooling toddlers with expressions like "Some bollards are not placed deep into the ground or very strong, and might deform under a vehicle impact. Some bollards are quite firmly placed." other gems in this article include:

- shitting on the city engineer of Loveland, a public servant.

- taking a break from bollards to remind the audience about his good feminism.

- taking time to webster the definition of bollards and dance around the idea of them, but never once mentions ASTM F3016 vs. ASTM F2656 or other standard test methods for bollards.

we stay out of the technical here because youre not being taught, youre being told about bollards by the 21st century equivalent of a fucking victorian.
Don’t forget Westward Ho!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho%21

Edit: ironically HN formatting couldn’t handle the exclamation mark either.
To add insult to injury, many government systems in Ireland cannot handle áccented létters in names.
I work on a lot of projects related to vintage/obsolete technology. It's not at all uncommon for me to research something and find that all the links are broken, and the data is long gone. So developing a sense of information fragility is a useful skill, so you can get a sense of whether to save something.

Specifically about Alan Watts: There's a great podcast called 'Being in the Way' that I believe is produced by his son. One of their goals is to have a canonical & permanent archive of Watts' talks. Might be a good thing to practice your archiving skills on. :)

https://beherenownetwork.com/category/alan-watts/
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes or calling names? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If we want a more cynical take, the economic value of the human lives saved by installing those bollards does not outweigh the cost of installing all those bollards.

In some areas like Manhattan, where the average economic value of a life may be higher in some areas, bollards may be a good investment, if for example they save the lives of some high net worth individuals.

This does not reflect my personal opinion though so please don’t downvote me. I value all human life highly, except of course rapists and murderers, etc.
Nearly all stablecoin transactions are from bots and large-scale traders
This news is interesting (but is there even a legitimate source?) but this flame bait troll article is well below HN standards.

Slightly better reporting:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mit-scraps-diversity-sta...
Electric trolleys were a thing as well. And the extent to which horse manure was a problem depended on population size.
One situation where we made the decision to go against this advice was prefixing a type to our identifiers. This was only useful for humans to be able to distinguish the id types from each other so they wouldn't make mistakes when querying our service (passing a Foo id instead of a Bar id) since the id formats were otherwise identical.

We also made the decision that the geographical cluster doing the processing would be embedded in the id. This may have been a mistake, we never got to the point where it caused problems but if there was a major reorganization then yeah could have been problematic.
> consider the route of getting "kompromat" on a developer to make them "help" them

I suppose that’s an option, but it also introduces an additional risk of exposure for your operation as it doesn’t always work and makes it much more complicated to manage even when it does work.
> but there's another class of gentrifiers that ... are pushed out of the places they'd like to live and have to settle for the grubby lively neighborhood. these are the ones that complain because they don't really want to be there in the first place.

In my experience, these people are fine. They suck it up and get on with it, grateful to not be living in a cupboard... or sofa surfing ... or homeless. Or they move on.

The complaints usually begin with one of

- people who moved to the area after reading a Time Out article about how "cool" the area is

- property developers

- people moving into the new builds built by said property developers

Soho is a bit of an odd one though. Been that way for time.
So what the fuck does does this mean? Any country can have it's extremists. I live in the US and there are a bunch of Nazi's here.
I've been saying for years, over and over, that we need to focus on simple architecture and improve our coding standards but I keep getting ignored. People keep making software and tools more complex... "Just use TypeScript" they say, "Just use React, with Typescript" then they end up with literally thousands of unnecessary dependencies. The bad guys are laughing at our collective ignorance and naivety.

Now probably the whole industry is compromised. Maybe our entire political system is compromised because of this.

People just had to look for projects with minimal code and dependencies. Precisely the opposite of what they did. These clean projects were starved of attention and opportunities and the overengineered projects were brought to the forefront. Now they are easy targets for bad actors. It's so easy to hide vulnerabilities amongst complexity... And we've chosen complexity.
The software is part (or all) of your billing system. And, yes, you can make the adjustments.

"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." -- Douglas Adams

However, it's behind 4 obscure menu options, and 3 passwords of which your staff have none (I'm exaggerating--but not by much). This is part of the dark patterns I mentioned.

If you are super technically saavy, you can find it and opt out. In reality, the dark patterns are more than sufficient to prevent it.
Not sure if this is that good of a metric given that I've read before that in recent history, precious metals have much higher demand where there is crisis and instability - and 1944 is certainly one of the peaks for that. I guess since 2023 it's also been quite a peak.
I don’t think the Manhattan Project was a single year either?
Chat online is communications in the real world.

The main questions are around who is obligated to retain the messages and for how long.
Maher Arar is not an authority on this issue (same for me, same for you) as he is a telecommunications engineer. And all of his assumptions about missiles and air warfare in the article must have sources before used. Just like anything else, also in doppler equtions: garbage in, garbage out. But just look on the 2 videos he brings trying to claim it was a GBU-39 bomb:

One destroys an entire mosque in the past:

[1] https://youtu.be/YszjqgUWdUo

But the same left a 1 meter crater in the hospital???? Just nonsense.

[2] https://youtu.be/VnAbV-ktbi8

As clearly stated in [3]: "More than half a dozen experts who independently reviewed imagery of the scene said the lack of major blast damage, such as collapsed buildings, as well as the relatively small size and shape of the crater, ruled out the possibility of the kind of airstrike Israel has carried out elsewhere in Gaza since Oct. 7."

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/10/26/gaz....
Is it public how much meta is using these GPUs for internal operations, and what kind of savings they might be seeing from that?

It seems like there must be a ton of things other than the underwhelming “meta ai” chat box that they could be throwing H100s at - anything from content recommendation engines to anti-abuse to optimizing network bandwidth and traffic flows.
I spent three semesters in college learning RL only to be massively disappointed in the end after discovering that the latest and greatest RL techniques can’t even beat a simple heuristic in Tetris.
I've done it a few times in my career. A lot of people build domain specific languages or compilers or translators or assemblers. Compilers and related theory is often covered in a CS degree curriculum.

I didn't say replicating off the top of your head. The blog post is meant as parody. I'm not suggesting someone should be asked to design a language in an interview though maybe some questions on the topic might be ok for some specific roles.

A mechanical engineer is not a material scientist or a metallurgist but they're definitely educated on the topic of materials. They need to choose the right alloy or material for their designs and understand its properties, they need to select vendors and understand the relevant processes. They're not as specialized but that have some base understanding and the capability to dive in if needed. That's I think what a software engineer needs to have as well. A car mechanic doesn't have those and that's fine.

I don't think this is elitist. There needs to be some distinction between people at different levels and capabilities. I'm not saying a car mechanic isn't capable of being a mechanical engineer. They can even become the equal or better through self study. But replacing an alternator isn't the same thing as designing the alternator.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I wasn't trying to be personal there. The reality of life is that lots of people that work on software call themselves (and companies call them) software engineers.
That'll be the day.

We couldn't even get Americans to stick with speedometers that didn't go above 85 MPH (1979-1981). Good luck limiting peoples speeds automatically, or ability to drive in certain areas!
And what application fees are you talking about exactly?

Because if that is the issue, that sounds pretty cheap and easy to fix.
There are many numbers between 1 and 100 my friend.
What about the fact that X.org itself is unmaintained and falling apart? It's nice that the modesetting driver covers most new hardware, but without active maintenance and governance the writing is on the wall for X.org.

Without a Wayland story, the BSDs will really end up dying, at least as desktop systems.
I gotta chime in also. I just learned about your channel literally today when a buddy DM'd me a link on your YouTube homelab tour. We have pretty similar interests. I also have an IOTAWATT and I love it. My only grip is I wish they had the ability to log more channels with the same unit. ie Approximately 30 channels.
I started watching it to try get a different take on events in Israel. It took me about 10 minutes to realise it’s a Hamas mouthpiece. I think they have two audiences to try establish a sense of credibility and then use it to spew lies.
I actually don't care that much about the monadic functions.

For me the important use case is pattern matching, which C++ doesn't yet have. Pattern matching really changes how you see the entire language.
With about 400,000 people you could make … Target, Home Depot, or United Healthcare.
This is fine but you have to realise that war isn’t just about bombs. It’s about information too. An information war. In order to make up your mind correctly you need to be feed accurate information. Al Jazeera making up causality figures in real-time isn’t how you make up your mind.
You're still conflating murdering civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure with "winning", but the resistance is quite safe in their tunnels and they are still fighting[0] back. It's also advisable to take Israel's casualty numbers with a huge grain of salt because they are contradictory to what's happening on the ground. Israel has not achieved any of its declared objectives (except for the Genocide)

[0] Palestinian resistance weapons continue to evolve during genocide, with Jon Elmer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF9OsxkttM0
Something in the scale of a modern DE could become decrepit, outdated, and difficult to use real quick without major support.

There’s more DE’s than I could shake a stick at and like 5 of them are usable for a an average user.
2008. Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_State...
This kind of nerd-sniped me. I did find a closed-form solution, that relies on an identity mapping the product of successive factorials ("hyperfactorials") to the Barnes G-Function which is related to the Riemann Zeta Function at a level deep past my comprehension. Still, here's[1] the closed form solution which returns the number of bits of entropy able to be generated given some number of coin flips using this approach, assuming the coin is indeed fair. Divide by the number of flips again to get the efficiency.

Unfortunately, Wolfram Alpha isn't able to determine the limit of this function[2], and neither am I. :)

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=evaluate+Divid...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Limit%5BDivide...
It ain’t flying civilians so who cares.
> When you look at licensed engineering professions, they tend to be more about ensuring that designs meet agreed upon standards. If the engineer involved was following the standards and actually reviewed the design, it’s unlikely there would be any basis for criminal charges.

This still leads to bad results because then if ordinary practice leads to bad outcomes or inefficiency, everyone continues on with it because there is no liability for the status quo and potential liability for doing anything different.

The thing that usually works is to put liability on companies that cause injuries through negligence, because then the company has the incentive to prevent injuries in the best way it can come up with, without specifying any particular method of doing it. This isn't perfect because then you still have courts deciding what "negligence" means and large companies rigidly conforming to whatever the lawyers say, but at least then they're operating in a competitive environment where the ones that waste resources being unnecessarily rigid make less money and the ones that fail to prevent the harm get sued.

The problem is this doesn't work for governments because they're not subject to competition. Then they either immunize themselves from getting sued or waste a ridiculous amount of resources over-engineering a way to prevent the harm or fail to prevent it and get sued but it's the taxpayer who pays, and in all cases the harm falls on the public.
so the fat Texan then
why were these emails released as part of the FTC's lawsuit against google.

How did the FTC get microsoft's email over an antitrust lawsuit against google
They are a "private sector" company in the sense that they are not a "public sector" (i.e., government) entity.

They are a "publicy traded" company (like Tesla) because their shares are available on the stock market for non-qualified investors, and not "privately held" (like SpaceX).
Does it matter though? They don’t have to say “I am so and so of the Egyptian intelligence service and would like to blackmail you”
The article begins by explaining that it’s a follow-up to an earlier article on Wayland!
Rudi Dutschke's long march through the institutions. Marcuse endorsed it -- because it works.
A PR needs maintainer approval. And the maintainer I've seen thinks the documents are good enough already. In cases like that, a PR might not be able to solve the problem.

Complaining about it reroutes people to better projects, and pushes the project to fix the problem.
this is a wild prediction to make and disturbingly regressive

FOSS is one of the most beautiful examples of supranational collaboration, and is in my experience much more integrated than the web at large, in a way that has nothing to do with "recent inclusive ideologies"
If the news articles about Instagram extortion are anything to go by, adding weapons to an extortion situation is more likely to lead to a suicide than the extortionist being dissuaded.
Ironically, the UK already does quite a bit better than the USA in pedestrian safety, despite having much more history of existing built environment.

Or actually, it's perhaps not ironic, it's perhaps because of the limitations of the existing built environment in the UK, which prevented doing what has been done in many parts of the USA -- optimize for car speed over pedestrian safety.
I have to roll my eyes at someone who thinks critieking a 30 year old movie is somehow 'spoiling' it.
In Europe, the most popular high school and university debate format is British Parliamentary in which spreading is not popular because you only have 15 minutes to prepare and weakly justified arguments don't require responses.

https://youtu.be/XyIK_Cg_8jc?t=327

British culture certainly has plenty of ivory tower elitism, yet has passed by this. I don't think it's a special revolutionary pedagogy, just a different interpretation of how to deal with subjectivity in debate.
The article makes an offhand comment about the popularity of NetBSD in Japan. Can anyone explain why that is?
This entire "AI" paradigm is perverse. Literal truckloads of money throw into the ether (not to speak of the tons of fossil fuels burned) so we can have shitty chatbots. What does Meta have to show for all of this? My friends sending me unbearably shitty fake photos they asked the Meta Bot to "imagine" for them. What a complete and utter waste.
At the risk of being downvoted as the parent comment. There were many reports in Israeli media showing their reporters framing a false narrative around the conflict.

To be fair, I think that blocking etc. is a dumb move by the government. Even though they are clearly a very biased organization the damage of closing their offices is probably worse than the alternative.

The fear mongering of the top parent comment is unjustified and not exactly accurate. I'm physically in Tel Aviv and can access the Al Jazeera website just fine. News outlets can't be closed and there's no "great firewall" in Israel. There is a censor but its usage is relatively limited in the age of the internet.

Examples of Al Jazeera bias include a famous video of a Gazan interviewed by a reporter blaming Hamas for everything and the reporter immediately cutting it off so it won't break the narrative that everyone in Gaza blames only Israel.

They're the ones that promoted the fake hospital bombing and they are the source of most fake unsubstantiated stories. Their Arabic language channel is far worse than their English coverage.

They made up fake stories about IDF soldiers raping in Gaza and obviously didn't report about the actual rapes by Hamas.

They refuse to interview people who can actually answer questions legitimately in Arabic such as Yosef Hadad since that would let their audience receive unfiltered truth.